How to get MD5 sum of a string using python?

You can do the following:

Python 2.x

import hashlib
print hashlib.md5(whatever your string is).hexdigest()

Python 3.x

import hashlib
print(hashlib.md5(whatever your string is.encode(utf-8)).hexdigest())

However in this case youre probably better off using this helpful Python module for interacting with the Flickr API:

… which will deal with the authentication for you.

Official documentation of hashlib

For Python 2.x, use pythons hashlib

import hashlib
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update(000005fab4534d05api_key9a0554259914a86fb9e7eb014e4e5d52permswrite)
print m.hexdigest()

Output: a02506b31c1cd46c2e0b6380fb94eb3d

import hashlib
print(hashlib.md5(bHello MD5).hexdigest())
print(hashlib.md5(Hello MD5.encode(utf-8)).hexdigest())

Out:

e5dadf6524624f79c3127e247f04b548
e5dadf6524624f79c3127e247f04b548